The following is a Jigsaw activity to engage you in examining some of the different cool tools that are available for teachers to use with their classes on the Internet. A jigsaw involves your participation in two teams - and expert team and a learning group. During the first phase of the project you will form an expert team with a partner by signing up in the chart below. Together you will research a category of cool tools from the list below ( url = http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com ) and prepare materials in the form of a wiki page to teach others about your tool. During the second phase of the project, you will participate in your jigsaw "Learning Group" to plan how you could use these tools as part of the curriculum in your school. You will discuss your ideas in your Group Discussion and together post your ideas on your Group wiki page. This project involves two steps:
Step 1 - Choose a partner and through discussion with that partner (email?) pick a category of tools from the list of tools below. To sign up for a Tool: click the EDIT tab at the top right of this screen and enter your name and your partner's name in the 2 spaces in the column below your tool. There can only be 2 members to each tool team, so when a expert team is full you will need to select a different tool. Use your team Page (listed in the left sidebar under the names of your tool) and its discussion to work with your team to research your topic and prepare a wiki page to teach the rest of the class about it. Spend no more than an hour to tryout out one of the tools in your Cool Tools category and another hour writing about it on your tool page.
Note
If you do not see the EDIT button or if it says "PROTECTED", make sure you have "joined" the wiki first. Since this is a protected site, only individuals who are members can edit pages. You will also receive an email from Wikispaces asking you to "confirm your email", which must be done before you are granted editing privileges.
Tools
"Presentation" Ashley Stauffer & Rachel Nappo
"Slideshow" Nancy Beckham and Katelyn Hadyniak
"Video" Lindsey Fields and Robert May
"Converting"
"Creativity" Kelly Herbeck & Steven Shurmur
"Widgets" Michelle Drotar
"Research" Chad Mack & Casey McDonnell
"Quiz and Poll" Sarah Stark & Janelle Sterling
"Collaborate"
"File Storage and Web Page" Tom Torrento &
"Image" Zahraa Mazeh & Anthony Ron
"Drawing" Em Leskun
"Audio" Ashley Murphy & Cyndi Harwood
"Music" Tracy Zimmerman & Danielle Huff
"Mapping"
"Graphing"
"Writing" Ashley Herndon & Debbie Goodling
"Organizing" Ashley Laakso & Jared Lamborn
Step 2 - The "Groups" are curriculum development teams. During the last phase of the project, the Groups need to consider the question: How can you use these tools with students in schools? Consider yourselves to be a district-wide curriculum committee charged with the task of developing an interdisciplinary school-wide unit to engage students with these tools. Describe activities you might include in such a unit which would cut across content areas (arts, mathematics and sciences, social sciences, humanities) and grade levels (elementary, middle school, and high school). Contribute no more than an hour to thinking and writing your ideas - but you may want to do that in three 20 minute visits to the page. Otherwise you won't get to see how your team responds to your ideas or to read their ideas.
Web2.0 Tools 4 Schools!
The following is a Jigsaw activity to engage you in examining some of the different cool tools that are available for teachers to use with their classes on the Internet. A jigsaw involves your participation in two teams - and expert team and a learning group. During the first phase of the project you will form an expert team with a partner by signing up in the chart below. Together you will research a category of cool tools from the list below ( url = http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com ) and prepare materials in the form of a wiki page to teach others about your tool. During the second phase of the project, you will participate in your jigsaw "Learning Group" to plan how you could use these tools as part of the curriculum in your school. You will discuss your ideas in your Group Discussion and together post your ideas on your Group wiki page. This project involves two steps:
Step 1 - Choose a partner and through discussion with that partner (email?) pick a category of tools from the list of tools below. To sign up for a Tool: click the EDIT tab at the top right of this screen and enter your name and your partner's name in the 2 spaces in the column below your tool. There can only be 2 members to each tool team, so when a expert team is full you will need to select a different tool. Use your team Page (listed in the left sidebar under the names of your tool) and its discussion to work with your team to research your topic and prepare a wiki page to teach the rest of the class about it. Spend no more than an hour to tryout out one of the tools in your Cool Tools category and another hour writing about it on your tool page.
Note
If you do not see the EDIT button or if it says "PROTECTED", make sure you have "joined" the wiki first. Since this is a protected site, only individuals who are members can edit pages. You will also receive an email from Wikispaces asking you to "confirm your email", which must be done before you are granted editing privileges.
Tools
Step 2 - The "Groups" are curriculum development teams. During the last phase of the project, the Groups need to consider the question: How can you use these tools with students in schools? Consider yourselves to be a district-wide curriculum committee charged with the task of developing an interdisciplinary school-wide unit to engage students with these tools. Describe activities you might include in such a unit which would cut across content areas (arts, mathematics and sciences, social sciences, humanities) and grade levels (elementary, middle school, and high school). Contribute no more than an hour to thinking and writing your ideas - but you may want to do that in three 20 minute visits to the page. Otherwise you won't get to see how your team responds to your ideas or to read their ideas.
Jigsaw Sign-up Table (Step 1 - vertical Tool Team; Step 2 - horizontal Jigsaw Learning Group)
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